For all donations to Kool Herc, send to: Kool Herc Productions PO Box 20472 Huntington Station, NY 11746<\/strong><\/p>\n

(AllHipHop News) <\/strong>Hip-Hop pioneer DJ Kool Herc has been released from a medical facility, but remains in need of financial aid to help with an unknown health condition.<\/p>\n

“I just spoke to\u00a0Kool\u00a0Herc<\/a>.he\u2019s ok and in good spirits..but needs surgery..THIS TUESDAY at SUTRA..we\u2019re gonna do a collection for him,” DJ Tony Touch tweeted earlier today.<\/p>\n

According to Gangstarr’s DJ Premier, Kool Herc’s health is deteriorating and he is in need of monetary assistance, because he doesn’t have health insurance.<\/p>\n

“Kool Herc is very sick,” DJ Premier revealed on his\u00a0XM Satellite\u00a0radio<\/a> show Live From Headqcourterz. “For those that know about Hip-Hop, who we call the father of Hip-Hop, Kool Herc, is not doing well. It’s funny how we have a father of a culture that still lives, where as in some cultures they are dead and gone even though they may still be worshiped or reflected on in some kind of way.”<\/p>\n

According to DJ Premier, he spoke to Herc, who revealed that he was in need of financial assistance because he didn’t have medical coverage.<\/p>\n

Kool Herc, 55, is recognized by music historians as the Founding Father of Hip-Hop for his style of “Break” DJ’ing, which isolates the rhythm of a particular portion of a record.<\/p>\n

He is credited for laying the foundation for the most popular genre of music in the world, after a party he hosted at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, in the South Bronx.<\/a><\/p>\n

DJ Kool Herc is also a community activist who led a multi-year effort to prevent the sale of 1520 Sedgwick to greedy real estate speculators.<\/p>\n

In September of 2010, the building received a $5.6 million dollar federal loan that halted the sale of the building, allowing hundreds of tenants to keep their homes. <\/a><\/p>\n

Additionally, the\u00a0 building has officially been recognized as the place Hip-Hop music during the party, which took place on August 11th, 1973.<\/p>\n

“Being as though he is the man that set this whole culture off, y’all [the fans] should be willing any type of way you can.”
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